Met Office Weather Warnings

Forecast here in Beamish is 25mph gusting to 50mph right now.  My anemometer mounted on the end of a 5m pole in the garden, surrounded by sweet FA, at 115m elevation up a hill is currently showing 8mph with gusts of 20mph and hasn’t really seen an increase since about 12. It really feels like the meto have Cpl Jones in charge of the warning system.

Local weather station is showing steady of 25mph and currently gusts of 56mph. 

It’s pretty wild. 

30 gusting to 50 @ the moment, had to rig up an internal tv aerial otherwise iiiiiiiitttttttttsssssss vvvvvverrrrrrryyyyyy  bbbbbblllllloooocccccckkkkkky

Barometric pressure is falling at 5.5 mBar / hr at the moment here in Salford. Isha is definitely moving in.

Highest gust up to now is 28 mph from my Davis sensor unit mounted on a pole on my shed.

Yet another people confused that their weather is different to someone in another location shockfest…..

though it’s very mild for the time of year. and the wind seems to be breaking up the doomsday rain predicted.

@ElShalimo – what was the point of that post?

“Another people?” what like the Mayans?

We’re quite rightly discussing weather conditions that are rarely seen in this country. Amber warnings for winds over such wide inland areas are almost unheard of.

Let us know what we’re permitted to discuss please.

Derek – comment aimed at the earlier what’s all the fuss about posts

Stupid people need to learn by screwing up. That’s how humans have done so for thousands of years. Just look out the flaming window.

I can barely see the need for any weather forecast. You know that it is likely to be changeable at any time so just take a coat.

But then others will have to put themselves at risk to rescue the adventurous ignorant people

some lairy landings and bails on big jet tv today

Neighbours recycling bin has just blown over.

Plastic semi skimmed milk carton now going across the road. 

Shouldn’t even be in the recycling as they don’t take plastic.

Flight radar shows lots of go arounds and holding patterns at Glasgow airport. Belfast seems to be a struggle too.

Flight radar shows lots of go arounds and holding patterns at Glasgow airport. Belfast seems to be a struggle too.

Just came to post that – pop onto FlightRadar and there are 2 aircraft on 7700 (emergency) squawks, both on divert. One originally scheduled for Belfast appears to be diverting to Manchester. They show up as red on the map, click on them and you can see the flight pattern of holding for ages then heading off to an alternate landing option.

A friend of mine is due back into Manchester later tonight, already told her it’ll be a rough landing! Cos I’m helpful like that…. 😂

My point was the metoffice seem to be taking a massively pessimistic view to issuing warnings. As a result I think their messaging, particularly the yellow and to some extent the amber warnings, have little to no impact on public behaviour.  

The Netatmo weathermap, from stations that have anemometers installed, bears a poor correlation to the forecast for the evening, so far.

Of course Karma will now kick in & I fully expect my roof to end up down the hill with the lane blocked by a series of fallen trees while our power lines dance around sparking wildly, like last time. 

My letter box is rattling..it’s only a cheap pressed steel/alu flap, and I’ve previously duct taped a bunch of 2p coins to the underside of the flap to give it some weight, but it’s lifting and banging tonight.

My cheap £30 kettle BBQ as migrated across the garden and toppled over… I’m just gonna leave it there until the weather calms down and I can see how busted up it is.

We’re now up to 117kph on the front of the house.  I can hear the tiles starting to lift.  Now we see how well anchored the (flush mount) solar panels are!

Ryanair flight apparently from Manchester to Dublin is having a lovely tour of northern Ireland and England.

Held at Dublin, diverted to Belfast and held, diverted to Glasgow and held and now who knows where it’s off to – another attempt in Dublin or possibly just right back to Manchester!

Flight radar shows lots of go arounds and holding patterns at Glasgow airport. Belfast seems to be a struggle too.

my Aer Lingus flight today at 15.45 from Brum to Belfast was cancelled, due to the storm, bit of a pain but at least I had not got as far as the airport… fingers crossed for tomorrow!

I’m supposed to be flying to Munich tomorrow morning.  I’m feeling pretty sick about it. 

Oh the Ryanair flight has landed at Liverpool. 3hrs to fly from Manchester to Liverpool! 😳
It was about 3hrs late taking off, it’s now taken another 3hrs to fly a big loop of the Irish Sea and now it’s landing 32 miles from where it started. Bet there’s some pissed off passengers on board that one!

Glad of the weather warnings this weekend. Used them to persuade my 90 yo Mum who cant get up if she falls and who lives alone in an exposed coastal property in a remote D&G village with the main coast road currently closed and the other likely blocked not to go out of her house this afternoon and “sort the bins out”.

Peak gusts are forecast for 70mph there, but add in the exposed location (on a corner & the beach is opposite her drive) and the gusts are likely to be 20-30% higher

possibly just right back to Manchester!

Gone to Liverpool!

My sister is on the Rotterdam to Hull over night ferry tonight. That should be fun!

Gone to Liverpool!

Flipping heck. I don’t know much about aviation, but I remember seeing comments from some pilots about carrying excess fuel for emergency diversions and how they are kinda pressured into flying with minimal reserves by some airlines… They must have been running on fumes by the time they landed 🙁

Kryton57Full Member
I’m supposed to be flying to Munich tomorrow morning.  I’m feeling pretty sick about it.

I wouldn’t worry – It’s much harder to land these things in a storm than it is to take off.  Munich is nice and calm at the moment.  If you’re in the center head on over to the Lucid electric car shop – It’s a lovely thing!

Getting pretty windy here – my flat amplifies the wind especially the noise of it due to the buildings shape and m  flats location in it.  Very gusty – and its just dropped completely.   Its nothing like as windy as the forecast tho

@Andy thats a heartwarming tale.

I wouldn’t worry – It’s much harder to land these things in a storm than it is to take off.  Munich is nice and calm at the moment.  If you’re in the center head on over to the Lucid electric car shop – It’s a lovely thing!

It’s turbulence I’m frightened of.  I have this in the morning and….  have a look at the Munich Weather for my apparent return on Wednesday. 🙁

They must have been running on fumes by the time they landed 🙁

That could easily have been the reason for the two flights running on 7700 emergency beacons earlier.
Could do with one of STW’s resident pilots like @Flaperon or @dantsw13 or @boardmanfs18 on the thread but maybe they’re up there battling the wind too!

Be interesting to hear their stories if so!

It’s not a day to mess about with fuel, everyone tends to want to divert to the same airports, which can fill up very quickly.
Lots of fuel buys you options and time.
I suspect all the crews flying tonight have taken a lot of spare fuel, I’d certainly have enough for a couple of approaches at destination then off to a pretty solid alternate – possibly mainland Europe.

Flying Belfast to Gatwick early doors, first flight then train to Surrey for work. Not sure what to expect. Roaring over here currently. Tempted to say I won’t be in. Anyone experience of the railways around LDN during times like these? Is it going to be a day of delays?

Stupid people need to learn by screwing up. That’s how humans have done so for thousands of years. Just look out the flaming window.

That’s why we’ve learned to forecast weather as just guessing and taking a coat doesn’t work as well.

I bet whoever is out early doors tomorrow doing live stream footage from airports is going to go viral!

Remember that storm a few years back when Big Jet TV smashed all previous records?!

I’d certainly have enough for a couple of approaches at destination then off to a pretty solid alternate – possibly mainland Europe.

A ryanair flight from Manchester to Dublin got diverted to Paris Beauvais (wherever that is, given its ryanair I am assuming somewhere in Germany).
edited since wrong way round.

😆

It’s turbulence I’m frightened of.

Turbulance I can cope with, it’s hitting the deck at 400mph I’m frightened of!

A ryanair flight from Dublin to Manchester got diverted to Paris Beauvais (wherever that is, given its ryanair I amd assuming somewhere in Germany).

Having flown to it once, I can assure you it’s nowhere near Paris, in fact it’s nowhere **** near anywhere! Pity the poor passengers ending up there, there is **** all in the way of facilities anywhere nearby!

Maybe Ryanair can just rebrand it as Manchester East….

Just look out the flaming window.

But that doesn’t tell me what the weather will be in 2 days’ time. And before you make the standard quip about forecasting, this current wind was forecast days ago.

It’s turbulence I’m frightened of.  I have this in the morning and….  have a look at the Munich Weather for my apparent return on Wednesday. 🙁

Turbulence has never brought down a modern aircraft.  We design for extreme gust loads in both the structure and safety systems for the aircraft.  It may get bumpy, but stay strapped in and you’ll be fine.  

The wind direction for Wednesday in Munich is perfectly aligned to the runway and seems to be stable (less gusts) which is exactly what you want.  It’s also 1/3 less than the UK at the moment.   Also, whilst the weather in Munich may be bad on Wednesday it’ll be much better for your landing in England  and again, the landing is the tougher part. 

TUI flight from Sharm el-Sheikh to Glasgow on an emergency beacon, looks like it’s diverting to Manchester or Liverpool.